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Famed writer Truman Capote, southern born and bred but now part of the New York City social circle, is growing weary of his current assignment of writing autobiographical type pieces for the New Yorker. After reading a newspaper article about the just occurred November 14, 1959 cold blooded murders of the Clutter family in their rural Kansas home, Truman feels compelled to write about that event as his next article. So he and his personal assistant Nelle Harper Lee, also a southern born New Yorker and an aspiring writer of her own, head to Kansas to research the story first-hand. Truman hopes to use his celebrity status to gain access to whomever he needs, such as to Laura Kinney, a friend of the Clutter daughter she who discovered the bodies, and to Alvin Dewey, the lead police investigator and also a Clutter family friend. If his celebrity doesn't work, Truman will grease the wheels by whatever means necessary. When the police eventually charge suspects, two young men named Dick Hickcock and Perry Smith, Truman uses those same tactics to gain access to them. Truman's fascination with the story makes him believe that he can revolutionize writing by expanding the germ of the article into what he calls a non-fiction novel. His personal involvement also changes as he grows emotionally attached to Perry, the seemingly sensitive and thus probable submissive in the criminal pairing, thus Truman becoming part of the story itself. Article or non-fiction novel, Truman knows that he has to take it to its natural conclusion, something which he cannot force. But also missing are the details of the November 14, 1959 event itself, something that neither Dick or Perry have divulged even in testimony.

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枕上白痴2017-01-28 08:39:07

忠なれば孝ならず……か？
いや、もっと悪魔的だ
冷血のあと、なにもかけなくなったのは、
殺人者の魂を利用した祟りだろう

Rex Mundi2016-02-06 08:31:36

CAPOTE script was much better than Infamous, allowing Hoffman to give a far more nuanced performance than Toby Jones. And after reading In Cold Blood, the makers of CAPOTE presented the audience with a far too sympathetic portrayal of Perry Smith, completely failing to capture his dark side: the short tempered criminal psychopath, who hated the world and everyone in it because of his troubled life and physical deformity. And by the way - the book suggests the robbery was just bait to involve Perry Smith. Hickok was a pedophile, who organised the raid on the Clutters farm with the main purpose of raping Nancy Clutter, and the aim of letting Smith kill all the witnesses afterwards. To his credit (and as far as anyone knows, including Capote) Smith wouldn't let him rape her; it's perhaps the single solidary good deed the bastard ever did in his short, pathetic life.

On November 15th 1959 ryan balargin successfully cooked his first superpretzel, he added 30 seconds too it, the pretzel was brutally murdered by little termites all named Dexter fowler

David Mayhew2015-10-20 08:45:43

Oh Toby Jones was way better as Truman and so was the movie! What do people see in this guy? I'll never get it. It's got to do wirh taste, and trust me, it's in short order nowadays

LadySoul5022015-05-13 21:59:52

No offense to Toby Jones (even though he was a *dead ringer* for Capote) but PSH played the hell out of that role!
Such a brilliant actor with such a sad personal story.
Rest easy Phillip. Rest in perfect peace...

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